Satan’s Strategies: “Sin Now, Repent Later.”

“Sunday Sermon”

One of Satan’s key strategies is: “Go ahead and sin. There’s plenty of time. You can always repent later.” But when “later” comes, Satan strategy becomes: “You’ve blown it now. It’s too late. There’s no going back. You will always be unworthy. You might as well give up.”

“Procrastination” – Satan’s Successful Strategy

Life is short, and “NOW is the time for men to prepare to meet God.” (Al. 34:32)

Satan’s entices us to procrastinate repentance. He wants us to delay striving to live righteously. “There’s no hurry.” “You have plenty of time.” “You can always repent later.” “Sin now, repent later.”

“The thought of intentionally committing sin now and repenting later is perilously wrong. … Many start that journey of intentional transgression and never make it back. Premeditated sin has greater penalties and is harder to overcome.” (New Era, Q&A, Oct. 1995, 8)

Alma pleaded: “ I wish from the inmost part of my heart, yea, with great anxiety even unto pain . . . to not procrastinate the day of your repentance.” (Alma 13:27)

Amulek urged: “… as ye have had so many witnesses, I beseech of you that ye do not procrastinate the day of your repentance until the end.” (Alma 34:33)

Samuel the Lamanite warned: “But behold, your days of probation are past; ye have procrastinated the day of your salvation until it is everlastingly too late, and your destruction is made sure . . .” (Helaman 13:38)

As Spencer W. Kimball reminded us not to delay: “Do it now!“

“Wickedness never was happiness.” (Alma 41:10) “You have sought… for that which ye could not obtain; ye have sought happiness in doing iniquity, which thing is contrary to the nature of righteousness [and God].” (Helaman 13:38)

“Now is the time to exercise our faith. Now is the time to commit to righteousness. Now is the time to do whatever is required to resolve our undesired circumstances. Now is the time to reconcile with God through the merciful process of change afforded us by the Redeemer of mankind.” (“Do It Now,” Donald Hallstrom, Gen. Conf. Oct. 2007)

Repentance: “If not now, then when?”

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